Summary

Observations with KIDs Interferometer Spectrum Survey… (2022)

“ We exploited Jupiter to calibrate our detector response in an astrophysical signal and obtain the first scientific result, as shown in Fig. 2. We measure the brightness temperature of Venus at a frequency that has not been measured before. We obtain a brightness temperature KISS of at 150 GHz (the central frequency of the 120–180 GHz KISS band and the incertitude represents the 1-sigma level of confidence) . We also show the “Bellotti” model [14] as a solid blue line for the Venus brightness temperature and its extrapolation of a simple power-law as a dashed line at mm wavelengths. ”
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Observations with KIDs Interferometer Spectrum Survey… (2022)

“ This limits the frequency range over which they can be used. The emission has two main effects: 1) it increases the background (photon) noise with respect to what is expected for satellite experiments, and 2) leads to low-frequency noise induced by low-frequency drifts in the atmospheric emission. For the first, it requires an increase of the necessary integration time for a given signal-to-noise ratio. ”
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